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Every entry below is computed from a dated record — a committed price-refresh file, an approved radar update, or a source-cited model release. Nothing here is typed in by hand.

  1. 2026-07-31Prices re-verified for 50 tools — 20 plans re-checked against the new prices
  2. 2026-07-31DeepSeek V4 Flash (0731) shipped — The official V4 Flash checkpoint entered public beta on the existing deepseek-v4-flash API id, replacing the April preview. The legacy deepseek-chat and deepseek-reasoner ids were retired on 2026-07-24.
  3. 2026-07-24Claude Opus 5 shipped — Anthropic's new everyday flagship: close to Fable 5 on most benchmarks at half the price ($5/$25 vs $10/$50 per MTok), with a low/medium/high effort toggle to trade cost against capability.
  4. 2026-07-16Kimi K3 shipped — Moonshot's 2.8-trillion-parameter sparse MoE — reportedly the largest open-weight model yet, with a 1M-token context window. Weights announced for late July; until then benchmark claims are vendor-reported.
  5. 2026-07-10 — 20 plans re-checked against the new prices
  6. 2026-07-09 — OpenAI's GPT-5.6 family in three tiers — Sol (frontier), Terra (balanced), Luna (fast/cheap) — general availability across ChatGPT, Codex, and the API on Jul 9 after a government-vetted limited preview in late June.
  7. 2026-07-08 — xAI's first model built specifically for coding and agentic work, priced aggressively under Anthropic and OpenAI flagships with a 500K context window.
  8. 2026-07-05 — 20 plans re-checked against the new prices

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Prices re-verified for 16 tools
GPT-5.6 (Sol · Terra · Luna) shipped
Grok 4.5 shipped
Prices re-verified for 52 tools
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